Medicine Through time key dates and names

Question 1

Hippocrates main theory

Answer 1

The Four Humours

Question 2

Galen

Answer 2

Theory of Opposites, anatomical works

Question 3

Black Death in Britain

Answer 3

1348

Question 4

Andreas Vesalius

Answer 4

“On the Fabric of the Human body” wrote in 1543

Question 5

Ambroise Pare

Answer 5

“Notes on Surgery” - became king’s surgeon

Question 6

William Harvey

Answer 6

“an anatomical account of the motion of the heart and blood” in 1628

Question 7

Royal Society

Answer 7

1660

Question 8

Thomas Sydenham

Answer 8

Renaissance Doctor in London. “obervationes medicae” in 1676

Question 9

The Great Plague

Answer 9

1665

Question 10

The Great Fire of London

Answer 10

1665

Question 11

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Answer 11

Brought inoculation to England

Question 12

Edward Jenner

Answer 12

Vaccination - Vaccinates ‘James Phipps’ in 1796

Question 13

J.R Liston

Answer 13

‘Ether’ in 1846

Question 14

Florence Nightingale

Answer 14

‘Notes on Nursing’ in 1859

Question 15

Crimean War

Answer 15

1853-1856

Question 16

Mary Seacole

Answer 16

Gave aid to British soldiers in the Crimean War

Question 17

John Snow

Answer 17

1854

Question 18

Germ Theory

Answer 18

1861

Question 19

Louis Pasteur

Answer 19

Germ Theory in 1861

Question 20

Robert Koch

Answer 20

Anthrax Vaccine 1881

He identified the bacteria which caused anthrax (1875), TB (1882) and cholera (1883)

Question 21

Sir Humphrey Davy

Answer 21

Uses ‘Laughing Gas’ (Nitrous Oxide) in 1844

Question 22

Joseph Lister

Answer 22

Carbolic acid in 1865

Question 23

James Simpson

Answer 23

‘Chloroform’ in 1847

Question 24

Queen Victoria

Answer 24

Used Chloroform to birth her Eighth child in 1853

Question 25

1858

Answer 25

Great Stink

Question 26

Edwin Chadwick

Answer 26

‘Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring population’ in 1842

Question 27

1848

Answer 27

Public Health Act

Question 28

1867

Answer 28

Second Reform Act

Question 29

1875

Answer 29

Second Public Health Act

Question 30

W.C Rontgen

Answer 30

X-rays discovered in Dec 1895

Question 31

Alexander Fleming

Answer 31

Penicillin discovered in 1928

Question 32

Florey and Chain asking British Gov. for funding

Answer 32

1939

Question 33

US Gov. give Florey and Chain funding

Answer 33

1941

Question 34

Sir William Beveridge

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Beveridge Report in 1942

Question 35

NHS

Answer 35

1948

Question 36

1945 Nobel Prize

Answer 36

Fleming, Florey and Chain

Question 37

First Battle of Ypres

Answer 37

Oct-Nov 1914

Question 38

Hill 60

Answer 38

April-May 1915

Question 39

Second Battle of Ypres

Answer 39

April-May 1915

Question 40

Battle of the Somme

Answer 40

July-Nov 1916

Question 41

Battle of Arras

Answer 41

April-May 1917

Question 42

Third Battle of Ypres

Answer 42

July-Nov 1917

Question 43

Battle of Cambrai

Answer 43

Nov-Dec 1917